Control: retitle -1 ncurses: API/ABI break for tigetflag return value on
unsigned char archs
Control: severity -1 serious
* Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]> [251123 16:45]:
I see patch 20251101 changed the definition of ABSENT_BOOLEAN from
((signed char)-1) to
((NCURSES_SBOOL)-1)
While configure.in detects the possibility of using `signed char` for
`NCURSES_SBOOL`, I think by default it uses `char` (without
--enable-signed-char).
I think this is an unintentional ABI break on unsigned-char archs,
and also all binaries which were compiled using 20251101 or newer
need to be recompiled(!).
Raising severity for awareness.
Chris
